Special Events at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum
The Museum of the Jimmy Carter Library provides a unique experience for the
visitor. Through displays of room settings, objects, documents, photographs,
audio, and video, visitors can acquire a close-up view of the modern American
Presidency.
Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize is on display
Changing exhibits are drawn from the library and museum collections or are
based on themes relating to the presidency and American political history.
Many of these are traveling exhibitions from the Smithsonian Institution,
other Presidential Libraries, and other museums around the world.
If you would like to be notified about upcoming exhibits, book signings, lectures
or presentations, please contact us at carter_events@nara.gov
Our current schedule is:
Philip Lee Williams
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at 8 p.m.
Free and Open to the Public
One of Georgia's favorite authors has an exciting new historical novel set in Civil War-era
Atlanta, A Distant Flame. This lecture is sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book at the
DeKalb County Public Library with the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum.
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Evening of Poetry, Song & Drama
Friday, October 22, 2004 at 8 p.m.
Free and Open to the Public
Six of the South's most dynamic writers, performers and spoken word artists will take the stage
in the theater at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. The readings and performances
celebrate the publication of "MANIFESTATIONS: the d'Arts Literary Anthology," edited
by Gary Corseri.
Featuring work from 50 writers and artists from around the world, with a focus on the US South
and Georgia, "MANIFESTATIONS" is a project of the DeKalb Council for the Arts in support of
literacy, and the written and spoken word.
Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. Copies of "MANIFESTATIONS" and other works will be available
for purchase in the Carter Museum lobby.
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Three Pulitzer Historians Come to Atlanta
August 27, 2004 at 8:00 pm; October 24, 2004 at 2 p.m. and
November 11, 2004 at 8 p.m.
Free and Open to the Public
A first for Atlanta - a series of public appearances by three of America's most distinguished
historians, all winners of the Pulitzer Prize.
The series, "A Trio of Pulitzers," is sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book at the
DeKalb County Public Library with the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum. The three programs offer metro Atlantans
the opportunity to hear free lectures and meet prize-winning historians.
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After 9/11: Messages from the World and Images of Ground Zero
Third Anniversary is Commemorated with Artifacts, Letters & Photographs
September 4, 2004 - January 2, 2005
The U.S. Diplomacy Center of the U.S. State Department, in cooperation with the Museum of the City of New
York, has put together an exhibition of letters, poems, paintings, drawings, quilts,
photos, and other gifts that poured into New York, Washington, D.C. and
Pennsylvania after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Many of these genuine
expressions of sympathy were brought or sent to U.S. Embassies around the
world. The exhibition also includes photographs of Ground Zero.
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The Museum is open from 9 a.m.to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 4:45 p.m. on
Sunday. Admission is $7.00 - Adults; $5.00 - Seniors (60+), Military, and students with IDs; Free - Children (16 and under). Parking - Free. The Museum is closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. For more information, please call 404-865-7101.
Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
441 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, Georgia 30307-1498
Telephone: (404) 865-7100
Fax: (404) 865-7102
Email: carter.library@nara.gov
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